News about special and protective equipment

The number of people vaccinated against coronavirus by the first component of the Sputnik V vaccine exceeded 667.3 thousand people in the army and navy. Many of them were also vaccinated with the second component of the drug. In total, the Armed Forces delivered almost 706 thousand doses of the vaccine against a life-threatening infection.

Specialists of the Research Center at the state aerospace company China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp (CASIC) have developed an exoskeleton for firefighters involved in extinguishing forest fires.

The Department of the Chief of Engineering Troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will take an active part in the preparation and holding of the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021".

In a few months, a facial recognition system installed in the Moscow metro has helped identify 600 people who are on the federal wanted list. This was announced by the Mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin, speaking at the discussion club of the Higher School of Economics and the BEAC.

Near Moscow, the exercises of the 45th engineering and camouflage regiment of the Russian Armed Forces were held, during which the military tested unusual inflatable equipment, the Zvezda TV channel reports. At the same time, the maneuvers of the "inflated" troops caused concern in a number of Western media, including the British The Sun.

In the Netherlands, a naval special forces exercise for the first time used a gravity jet suit to get on a ship captured by a simulated enemy.

According to the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, on April 20, 2021, a meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation was held in Moscow at the National Defense Management Center of the Russian Federation under the leadership of the head of the military department, Army General Sergei Shoigu.

On Tuesday, April 20, the heads of medical services of the CSTO member states determined the order of anti-epidemic measures for the arrival, participation and departure of contingents at joint exercises.

The facilities will provide camouflage equipment from satellite surveillance and fire exposure

More than three hundred shelters will be built for the deployment of advanced aviation equipment, including fifth-generation aircraft, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday.

In the waters of the Baltic Sea on Monday, the traditional spring exercises of NATO minesweepers Open Spirit will start. The exercise will involve 21 ships from 11 countries, including the ships of the First Permanent Mine Action Group of NATO. The Estonian Navy is leading the exercises, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic reported.

In the Army Corps of the Baltic Fleet, exercises were held to practice the actions of personnel in the conditions of the use of weapons of mass destruction.

Alexander Bloshenko, Director of the State Corporation for Advanced Programs and Science, did not rule out that in the future, gene and cell technologies and medical effects on individual organs will be used.

The resident of the special economic zone of the capital "Special Design and Technological Bureau of Applied Robotics" ("SKTB PR") has delivered a batch of eight mobile robotic complexes MRK-15 for the Russian law enforcement agencies, designed to neutralize explosive objects, said the head of the Department of Investment and Industrial Policy of Moscow Alexander Prokhorov.

To date, the water intake, built in the Republic of Crimea by the forces of the Military Construction Complex of the Russian Defense Ministry, has transferred more than 1 million tons of fresh water to the city waterworks of Sevastopol.

In Nagorno-Karabakh, engineering teams of Russian peacekeepers are combing the area on the outskirts of the city of Mardakert. Before the armed conflict, there was agricultural land there. And when the war began, the military adapted them for artillery positions.

Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu on April 9, during an inspection of the state defense order of JSC "766 Department of Production and Technological Equipment" (UPTK) in the Moscow region, instructed to increase radiation protection for Russian military robots.

The latest heavy robotic mine-clearing system is being developed in the interests of the Russian Armed Forces, the Defense Ministry told reporters.

An informed source of RIA Novosti in Moscow confirmed the existence of military biological laboratories of the United States in Ukraine.

The holding company "Roselektronika" of the State Corporation Rostec has developed combined optoelectronic surveillance and reconnaissance devices that have no domestic analogues.

Shvabe Holding shows promising security devices, medical solutions, and updated lenses at the Innoprom International exhibition, which opened in Uzbekistan.